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Simply stunning - The Department of Labor has a "Special Assistant for Conservative Outreach"(1112 views)

January 13, 2006

The GOP's "Crying Game." - The families of gangsters and thugs often cry when their loved ones are outed as the despicable scoundrels they truly are. (1167 views)

Alito Confirmation: Stacking the Supreme Court with Authoritarians - It’s not newsworthy that Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann Bomgardner, "got choked up," as World Views characterized it, when "Senate Judiciary Democrats … grilled, insulted, and defamed" the shoo-in nominee, although it was in fact Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham who made her bawl (Alito’s spouse needs to grow a spine and understand Washington is a pit of poisonous vipers and, besides, after her husband eagerly and dutifully facilitates the ongoing evisceration of the Constitution, she likely will not shed a tear).(912 views)

MoveOn.org Surrenders: Silence is Complicity - MoveOn is nothing more than a cover for the Democratic Party. Issues are no matter. Partisan politics are. We’ve got a war going on and advocacy groups who allegedly oppose it should stand up to it, not pander to those who do.(1077 views)

New Job for Former Cheney Aide - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who served as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until his October 28 indictment and subsequent resignation, has joined the Hudson Institute as a senior adviser...(1008 views)

Jack Abramoff, â€śSuper Zionistâ€ť - ...not only did he spread his illicitly gained money around the halls of Washington, but the illegally occupied territories of the West Bank as well.(873 views)

Forced Abortions & Sweatshops - A Look at Jack Abramoff's Ties to the South Pacific Island of Saipan & How Tom DeLay Became An Advocate for Sweatshop Factory Owners(1094 views)

January 5, 2006

"Diversity" comes to the White House - Why, for real diversity, the news is proudly reporting there were even some Democrats. You know, people like Robert McNamara, the guy who helped plan the firebombing deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese...(1020 views)

January 4, 2006

Matthews implicated in Abramoff scandal - ...there's the ethical issues with this so-called journalist hanging out in (and helping with) such a blatantly partisan event. It's again obvious that his schmoozing with the rich and powerful have hampered his ability to commentate on those issues properly detached and rational. He's been co-opted by the DeLay/Abramoff machine.(1166 views)

The $4bn industry that is America's guilty secret - Lobbying is Washington's grubby secret. Some say lobbying is part of the democratic process. Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption. But love it or loathe it, it is the way Washington works.(953 views)

Jaw-dropping Quote of the Day - Not one of the reporters who got to ask a question thought to (or dared to) ask Bush how he dared to compare his scratch to the serious injuries of soldiers he had sent off to battle, even in jest.(1297 views)

Terrorists in High Places - Wars are not waged by those who have to fight them. Those who fight wars know too well their terrible costs. Wars are waged by those who profit from them with minimal or no risk to themselves. War is big business and it is immensely profitable for a select few who are insulated from the effects of war’s environmental impacts and social costs. War never serves the interest of working class people. They are the result of menacing forces of greed and power masquerading as benevolent government, insulating us from contrived acts of terror. (929 views)

The first annual M.F. awards - With 2006 upon us, the voices in my head and I decided this would be the perfect time to study the behavior of politicians and pundits last year and inaugurate "The First Annual M.F. Awards."(1044 views)

December 29, 2005

Pentagon Shakes Up Emergency Hierarchy - ...the doomsday plan moves to near the top three undersecretaries who are Rumsfeld loyalists and who previously worked for Vice President Dick Cheney when he was defense secretary.(794 views)

December 27, 2005

THE IMMINENT DANGER TO AMERICANS! - ...we the people of the United States face multiple imminent dangers from within our own borders. These threats have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism or hoarded weapons of mass destruction. These threats come directly from the policies of George W. Bush and his supporters in Congress! (928 views)

Pentagon "witness", Gannon pimp, Eberle moving up in Texas GOP - Bobby Eberle gave the most definitive "eyewitness account" of an American Airlines Boeing jetliner hitting the Pentagon on 9/11, despite voluminous physical evidence to the contrary. His history as a preeminient BS artist leaves him well-qualified for a top spot in the Texas Republican hierarchy.(1023 views)

December 23, 2005

Bush Pardons Moonshiners, Bank Robber - President Bush has granted 11 pardons, bringing to 69 the number of clemency orders he has issued since taking office five years ago, the Justice Department said(903 views)

December 22, 2005

Cheney cozy in "silver bullet" - Vice President Dick Cheney didn't suffer for lack of comfort on the cavernous cargo plane that he rode into Iraq and Afghanistan this week.(1147 views)

December 20, 2005

The Wreck of St. Patrick Fitzgerald: CIA LEAK COVERUP - Is Mr. Fitzgerald following his previous conduct when he was the Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of NY ? Then he, along with Michael Chertoff, covered up the clear involvement of an FBI informant who, acting on orders of the Bureau, attempted to bomb the World Trade Center Towers in 1993.(1288 views)

Merry Conspiracy - We know that our government is not our government anymore. We know that our Constitution is nothing more than paper, and we know that American history is bad for children. Why do we know this? Because our government is not a government, but is, in fact, a conspiracy.(815 views)

The Exotic Adventures of Neil Bush - After a brief hiatus from the public spotlight, Neil Bush is back. Within a three-month period, Bush has shown up in Latvia, Ukraine and Georgia with Russian fugitive Boris Berezovsky, and has appeared at the side of the Unification Church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Taiwan and the Philippines.(2481 views)

Donors Underwrite DeLay's Deluxe Lifestyle - Over the past six years, the former House majority leader and his associates have visited places of luxury most Americans have never seen, often getting there aboard corporate jets arranged by lobbyists and other special interests.(834 views)

The miscreant dynasty - Behind George W, there are four generations of Bushes and Walkers devoted first to using political networks to pile up and protect personal fortunes and, latterly, to using absolutely any means to gain office, not because they want to do good, but because they are what passes in American for hereditary aristocrats. In sum, George Bush stands at the apex of a pyramid of privilege whose history and social significance that, given his animosity to scholarly thought, he almost certainly does not understand.(848 views)

Two hawks a-nesting, under a no-flight zone - This is the un-Camp David of duck decoys and oyster fests, a place where the two prosecutors of the war in Iraq amuse each other and seem poised to retire after 2008.(1175 views)

Who benefits in sudden furor over Bush administration's domestic spying? - The newfound "outrage" belies the fact that there was no such congressional outrage when it mattered -- four, five years ago, and every single day since 9/11. The major crimes of the US government, including 9/11, remain unaddressed, or have become the subject of massive disinformation and cover-up.(863 views)

So, just who is Christian Bailey? - Much is unclear about the Lincoln Group, its youthful executive vice-president and his string of previous companies that have left only the faintest paper trail. Indeed, Christian Bailey may not be his real name: a number of student associates said at some point during his four years that he changed his name from Yusefovich - an unlikely surname for someone called Christian.(1007 views)

Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists - The University of Chicago routinely trained me and innumerable other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-Con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. Years later, the University of Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft Police State.(995 views)

Cronyism strikes again - Amtrak's directors, appointed by the Bush administration based on cronyism, not competence, are shirking their responsibilities and dismantling - through outsourcing and privatization schemes - the very rail company they are charged with strengthening.(780 views)

December 15, 2005

Top-secret cronies - Bush has stacked his foreign advisory board with his Texas business pals, who stand to profit from access to CIA and military intelligence.(2214 views)

Dead Man Walking: Bush Sr. and North Should Join Tookie Williams - Oliver North, now a celebrity with a television show on Fox News, indirectly killed far more people than Tookie Williams ever did, and the corporate media has no interest in underscoring this obvious fact because North is considered a "patriot" and Williams a bottom-feeding gangbanger.(1118 views)

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show - Neil, we know, is following Poppy's lead: Moon led his father across South America in the mid-90s, stuffing a hundred grand in his pocket for his trouble, which naturally was no trouble at all for either man.(2102 views)

December 6, 2005

Donald Rumsfeld Is Mad As a Hatter - We now have a certifiable loon in charge of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. Shouldn't someone do something?(849 views)

A culture of bribery in Congress - Almost every US lawmaker takes big money aimed at helping private interests win favorable government action. If they stash the cash for themselves, it's illegal. If they use it to get reelected, keep their job, and help the private interests, it's generally legal. Either way, money still talks in Washington...(787 views)

Barbara Bush and the wretched Mr. Cheney - Barbara’s always been the grittiest street-fighter in the famiglia Bush; an imperious Wagnerian she-wolf with enough verve and venom to take down a dozen Cheneys(914 views)

December 3, 2005

The DeLay Scheme: Blatantly Buying Our Government - The big corporate interests that pumped money into Tom DeLay's scheme to control the Texas legislature and break precedent by rewriting an established congressional redistricting plan in mid-decade, knew full well what they bought in Texas. They bought our government.(946 views)

December 2, 2005

State Department using ideological litmus tests to screen speakers - The State Department has been using political litmus tests to screen private American citizens before they can be sent overseas to represent the United States, weeding out critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy...In one recent case, a leading expert on conflict resolution who's a former senior State Department adviser was scheduled to participate in a U.S. Embassy-sponsored videoconference in Jerusalem last month, but at the last minute he was told that his participation no longer was required.(912 views)

Canada's Prince of Darkness - If Michael Ignatieff is anything, it's connected, and I do not mean just to the relatively small establishment of Canada, I mean connected to the shadowy godfathers of world empire. Ignatieff has a rich career in America where truly loyal service, whether by natural or adopted sons, is always handsomely rewarded.(866 views)

GOP Wants to Create Secretive Gov't Agency - ... it is the secrecy and immunity provisions of the legislation that have alarmed patient rights and open government advocates. The agency would be exempt from the Freedom of Information and Federal Advisory Committee acts, both considered crucial for monitoring government accountability.(873 views)

The emperor's new restricted airspace - His top aide's been indicted, his nominal "boss" is barely speaking to him, and a former high-ranking government official just suggested he might be "a nefarious bastard." But Dick Cheney is still an important guy -- so important that airplanes cannot fly near his new future residence-in-exile....EVEN WHEN HE'S NOT THERE!(1224 views)

The horrible house of Walton: Lying, cheating and swindling their way to the top - Webster’s Dictionary defines robber baron as “an American capitalist of the latter part of the 19th century who became wealthy through exploitation (as of natural resources, governmental influence or low wage scales)...or through ethically questionable tactics.” There couldn’t be a better definition of the 21st century Walton family.(1557 views)